Spencer Byard ’29

SPENCE DIED Aug. 17, 1992. He had prepared for college at Allen Stevenson and Horace Mann schools. At Princeton he was on both the PRINCETONIAN and the TIGER. He was in Colonial Club, and his roommates were George Bradshaw, Dave Burnham, and Philip Burnham '31. After earning his law degree from Columbia, he became law secretary to Mayor LaGuardia. In 1943 he joined the firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl. From 1960 to 1982, he was a partner of the New York firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. Spence was a leading figure in two historic institutions, the New York Society Library, founded in 1754, of which he was secretary from 1953 to 1979 and chairman from 1979 to 1985, and Trinity Church, for which he was in charge of legal matters in connection with its extensive real estate holdings, some of which came in a grant from Queen Anne in 1705. He served in the Navy as legal officer at SHAEF in Europe and at SCAP in Manila and Tokyo, retiring as a lieutenant commander. He was the translator of Malreaux and Burnham's THE CASE FOR DEGAULLE. He was a trustee of International House, an elder of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, and president of the William Mattheus Sullivan Musical Foundation. He married Margaret Mather in 1955, and she survives him, as do their son Paul S. and daughter Margaret Byard Stearns. The Class extends sincere sympathy to Spence's family.

The Class of 1929